“There’s a very heavy weight that goes with being the storyteller,” an emotional Warren says in the series. The recently released docu-series “11 Minutes” detailing the horrific events of that night features SiriusXM host Storme Warren, who was inside the festival grounds along with Schumann and their SiriusXM crew members. Hundreds who were there are still scarred from the massacre at the music festival on Oct. The death toll has made the Route 91 Harvest Festival massacre the worst mass shooting in American history: 58 people killed and another 869 hurt. SiriusXM’s engineering team was recording Aldean’s performance to replay it on the popular country music station, The Highway. Instead, Schumann and his team spent days after the massacre working with Aldean’s camp to get the audio of the shooting handed over to the FBI. He hung up to get himself and his team to safety, he said - and tried to call his mother, aunt and uncle. Getty ImagesĬonfused and frightened, Schumann said he called his boss when the gunfire stopped for a moment - then seconds later screamed: “Oh God, it’s still going on!” Schumann said he “didn’t even know it was gunfire at first,” recalling the spray of bullets onto the stage exploded like a “sonic boom” followed by a “high-pitched crack.” The two broken windows on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino where a lone gunman identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on to the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Oct. Jason Aldean performs during the Route 91 Harvest country music festival at the Las Vegas Village on Oct. Shooter Stephen Paddock, 64, killed himself in his 32nd-floor room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino. There is likely never going to be a known motive. Schumann managed to dodge the gunfire and protect his employees backstage as the bullets flew while country singer Jason Aldean performed the final show at the three-day festival.Īt the end of the gunman’s rampage, 58 concertgoers were dead and 869 others wounded. A memorial sign hangs on the fencing that surrounds the property in Las Vegas where the Route 91 Harvest Festival happened on Oct. 1, 2017, the former SiriusXM exec recounted in an exclusive interview with The Post. “Run for your life! As fast as you can!” he screamed as the inexplicable shooting spree unfolded at the Route 91 Harvest festival on Oct. The memories of that carnage still haunt country music executive J.R. 1, 2017.īillboards along the strip and outside the Mandalay Bay deliver messages of “#VegasStronger” and “Remembering October 1, 2017.” Today, a memorial sign reading “GROUND ZERO” with details of the bloodshed that unfolded hangs from the fencing around the property where the massacre happened on Oct. Highland Park massacre marked 309th mass shooting in US this yearįive years after a lone gunman opened fire from a Las Vegas hotel on a country music festival crowd, there is little comfort and no answers to what triggered the massacre of scores of people - the worst mass shooting America had ever witnessed. The deadliest mass shootings in US history Journalist trapped inside Mandalay Bay recalls US’ worst mass shootingĬalifornia man busted for allegedly plotting ‘Las Vegas-style’ mass shooting
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